Kayak or Cruise Ship? How do you want to write?
Welcome to Deep-Fried Friday — when I plunge into whatever topic seems juicy and crunchy and ready for devouring. Today’s topic is about how you want to write. I never used to read the Acknowledgments section in a novel. Now that I…
Swooning Just a Bit
Even though I have been known to click on Roni Loren’s Boyfriend of the Week posts, I don’t generally ogle celebrity men or think about whom I find attractive or appealing. When asked which celebs are hot, I often draw…
What Would You Put in Your Fiction Museum?
I have probably mentioned before – maybe a dozen times by now – that Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my favorite films. (Ignore all sequels; by comparison, they suck.) In Raiders, an object takes center stage as…
Deep-Fried Friday Blog Awards & Tips
Way back on October 6, Jennette Marie Powell passed along the Versatile Blogger Award to me. I have not forgotten the kindness of her tipping her hat my way! If you have not checked out Jennette’s blog, she writes great posts…
Limericks: There Once Was a Blogger from Texas
It’s another Amaze-ing Words Wednesday with a fun with language post! Who doesn’t love a good limerick? Leprechauns in the City of Limerick, Ireland Limericks are five-lined poems with the aabba rhyme scheme in which the 1st, 2nd, and 5th lines…
Top 10 Silly But We-Love-Em Songs
For today’s Deep-Fried Friday, the topic is not so much deep as just juicy. Paul McCartney declared, “You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs,” but we haven’t. Indeed, we can’t get enough of silly songs,…
Can I Make Up a Word?
“I speak of the pompatus of love.” Welcome to Amaze-ing Words Wednesday! There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who believe that Steve Miller is super-cool for making up a word -“pompatus” [of love] – and those…
I Like You, But I Hate Your Politics
It’s Deep-Fried Friday, and my crunchy/juicy topic is politics! Am I crazy or what? Wait, read on. News programs are already abuzz with constant discussion about the next President of the United States. From now until next November, presidential candidates,…
A Lesson with Miss Pronunciation
It’s time for AMAZE-ing Words Wednesday! Today’s word lesson will be taught by renowned language arts instructor, Miss Pronunciation. Miss Pronunciation will present the incorrect and correct ways of articulating some commonly mispronounced words in the English language. Without further…
Why I Walk for the Cure
It’s Deep-Fried Friday, when I post something that I hope is juicy enough to think about with a nice crunch to it as you read. Today I’m talking again about breast cancer in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Last…